Re: Boot disks -- don't
John Carline wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Would anyone by any chance know what would make boot disks
> stop working?
>
mumble! mumble! curse!
Just in case anyone is interested, I now know.
If the floppy cable is not "perfectly" connected to the motherboard, it's possible
for the drive to read, write, and boot "most disks" correctly - but not all of them.
In my case the only disks that didn't work were the disks created with "zdisk and
bzdisk" even though the disks could be created.
It only took three checks and finally the disconnecting and reconnecting of the cable
to find it.
mumble! mumble! curse!
John
>
> I've got several small hard drives that I plug into my
> computer as /dev/hdd1 and have been playing with different
> configurations and kernels. After testing some modems for a
> friend, none of the boot disks that were created with either
> "make zdisk" or "make bzdisk" work. Instead of the normal
> "Loading" and a bunch of dots. I get what looks like a cpu
> dump and then after all the dots, the computer reboots.
>
> Looks like this;
>
> loading. 8000
> AX 0204
> BX 0000
> CX 0006
> DX 0000 .......................... (then reboots)
>
> Luckily all the disks that were created during the initial
> installation work - those that have syslink on them. All disks
> created during the compiling of a kernel fail. I even tried
> recompiling my slink/2.2.9 kernel and creating a new bzdisk,
> but it failed also.
>
> Evidently I changed something when I was testing the modems,
> but I sure don't see what.
>
> Any hints would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> John Carline
>
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